Twitter Advent Calendar, Day 16: #AlternativeAdvent

Here it is almost the end of Advent. I’ve collected so many amazing things to show you, I think I’m going to switch from how folks are handling presence to more of a focus on neat things folks are doing. I still have a few goodies of the other sort, so we’ll see what happens, but I have so much I want to show you yet!

Today’s post started with an odd serendipitous stumble. I found this.

TEXT: Day 13: Stay Young, Go Dancing. #alternativeadvent

This appears to be an individual who is putting out a tweet a day during Advent with short pithy philosophical statements. Nice idea. I was curious, so searched her hashtag of #alternativeadvent to see what else she’d done. Well, I found some goodies, but completely different ones.

Marvelous project attempting to transform Advent by focusing on people and their true needs, ways to help others, globally and locally.

From the same hashtag, I also stumbled on this!

TEXT: Me encanta!!! #AlternativeAdvent proyecto participativo de David Wilson, música y vídeo en colaboración > [link]
IN ENGLISH: I love this!!! #AlternativeAdvent is a participative project by David Wilson of collaborative music and video > [link]

Fascinating project. David Wilson (who, by the way, blogs entirely in English but has obviously engaged an international audience) for the alternative advent project has partnered each day with a different musician, who offered snippets and soundbytes that had been left on the cutting room floor after other projects, but which were felt by their creator to deserved a broader audience. David then used the snippets of music as soundtrack for brief videos. A very interesting project.